Police cars ablaze near the San Francisco Civic Center during the White Night Riots on May 21, 1979, courtesy of Daniel Nicoletta.

Police cars ablaze near the San Francisco Civic Center during the White Night Riots on May 21, 1979, courtesy of Daniel Nicoletta.

Image of Pei Lim from Men Loving Themselves: Images of Male Self-Sexuality (1980), republished in Rites for Lesbian and Gay Liberation, courtesy of the Rites Collective.

Image of Pei Lim from Men Loving Themselves: Images of Male Self-Sexuality (1980), republished in Rites for Lesbian and Gay Liberation, courtesy of the Rites Collective.

Pei-Hsien Lim reflects on his experiences in the leather community, clip from Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians (1984), courtesy of Richard Fung.

Pei-Hsien Lim reflects on his experiences in the leather community, clip from Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians (1984), courtesy of Richard Fung.

Lim’s high school class in Melbourne, Australia (circa 1971), courtesy of Gael MacLean.

Lim’s high school class in Melbourne, Australia (circa 1971), courtesy of Gael MacLean.

Childhood photograph of Pei Lim (circa 1961), courtesy of Gael MacLean.

Childhood photograph of Pei Lim (circa 1961), courtesy of Gael MacLean.

Pei-Hsien Lim discusses his childhood, clip from the film Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians (1984), courtesy of Richard Fung.

Pei-Hsien Lim discusses his childhood, clip from the film Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians (1984), courtesy of Richard Fung.

Photograph of Pei Lim dancing (circa 1983), courtesy of Gael MacLean.

Photograph of Pei Lim dancing (circa 1983), courtesy of Gael MacLean.

Promotional poster for Track Two: Enough is Enough (1982), courtesy of the ArQuives, used with permission from Pink Triangle Press.

Promotional poster for Track Two: Enough is Enough (1982), courtesy of the ArQuives, used with permission from Pink Triangle Press.

Pei-Hsien Lim performs his dance “Never Again,” clip from the film Track Two: Enough is Enough (1982), courtesy of Pink Triangle Press.

Pei-Hsien Lim performs his dance “Never Again,” clip from the film Track Two: Enough is Enough (1982), courtesy of Pink Triangle Press.

Angels of Light performing "Peking on Acid" at the Kaliflower Inter-Communal Free Carnival, San Francisco, 20 May 1972. Film by Jilala Jet van Jalopy. Courtesy of the Digger Archives. https://www.diggers.org/angels_of_light.htm.

Photo of the Stud, San Francisco gay bar, c. 1970s

Photo, SF State campus, sign at 19th and Holloway, Feb. 2025

Photo, SF State campus, Cesar Chavez Building rear mural, Feb. 2025

Photo, SF State campus, AIDS Memorial Garden, Feb. 2025

Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

Ruth Peter Worth CLOSE UP from passport photo

Ruth Peter Worth Passport, Baeck Institute, NY, photo Van Cleef.

LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, edited by Megan E. Springate, 2016

This exhibit features LGBTQ America, a theme study that the National Park Foundation and National Park Service (NPS) published in 2016; the NPS deleted the report from its website in 2025. The exhibit also includes The Pride Guide, an associated…

Danny Cockerline wearing one of the Prostitutes’ Safe Sex Project’s fundraiser t-shirts. Photograph by Konnie Reich. From the estate of Christine Louise Bearchell, courtesy of executor Andrew Sorfleet.

Danny Cockerline wearing one of the Prostitutes’ Safe Sex Project’s fundraiser t-shirts. Photograph by Konnie Reich. From the estate of Christine Louise Bearchell, courtesy of executor Andrew Sorfleet.

Chester (Gavin) Arthur, circa 1933, at Moy Mell, Oceano California circa 1933 - Library of Congress, Arthur Family Papers.